Word: southend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humphed Alderman S. F. Johnson of Southend-on-Sea, determined to carry the campaign to Parliament: "We are not satisfied to pervert the morals of our own children. We want to pervert the minds and morals of all the nations of the world...
...leader of Britain's House of Commons, Herbert Morrison, with his wife and 400 of his East Lewisham, London constituents, took a paddleboat down the Thames to Southend for a picnic, during which Politician Morrison played prestidigitator and performed a minor political hat trick...
From Swansea, in Glamorganshire, to Southend at the mouth of the Thames, and all along the south coast of Britain, last week newsmen had passably good seats at the Battle of Britain. At Dover was the greatest concentration. Newsmen in tin hats and civilian clothes took their stand on Shakespeare Cliff, high above the English Channel, sat on camp stools and shooting sticks while British and German planes fought in the sky, amused themselves in slack intervals by giving names to Dover's roly-poly barrage balloons: King Lear, Lord Castlerose, Göring (painted with medals), Puddin...